To ensure delivery to your inbox add email@mail.nbcnews.com to your contacts Today's Top Stories from NBC News THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2021 Good morning, NBC News readers.
Today we look at the problem of untraceable "ghost guns" featured on YouTube, the latest showdown over vaccine mandates, and controversy at an unusual beauty contest.
Here's the latest on that and everything else we're watching this Thursday morning. The internet has made the proliferation of homemade weapons a vexing problem for law enforcement officials across the country, who have linked them to mass shootings, attacks on police, as well as drug and gang-related killings in recent years.
And now, more than three years after YouTube tightened its gun content restrictions, an NBC News review has found dozens of videos, with more than 4.6 million combined views, showing how to assemble "ghost guns," which remain largely unregulated in most states and are nearly impossible to trace because they lack serial numbers.
NBC News sent links to six videos — which combined accounted for more than 1.2 million hits — to YouTube's parent company, Google, seeking comment on how it enforces its firearms policy.
YouTube removed the videos within hours but dozens of similar videos remain on the site.
Read the full story here. Friday's Top Stories
The Senate passed a resolution Wednesday to repeal President Joe Biden's vaccination-or-testing mandate for private-sector employers in a bipartisan rebuke of a key component of the White House's Covid-19 strategy. U.S. travel warnings are hitting longtime American tourist hot spots where it hurts, with some who depend on the dollar describing their situation as desperate. Researchers are finding that the intersection of Google, smartphones and our memories is starting to mess with how we judge our own abilities. OPINION The governor is leading GOP efforts to create environments conducive to authoritarianism, writes Ruth Ben-Ghiat, author of "Strongmen: From Mussolini to the Present." Also in the News
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Controversy at beauty contests is nothing new. But the contestants are usually people, not camels.
More than 40 camels were disqualified from an annual camel beauty pageant in Saudi Arabia after an investigation found they had been given Botox and other artificial treatments, the state-run Saudi Press Agency reported Wednesday.
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YouTube's 'ghost gun' videos, vaccine mandate showdown, and a camel beauty contest
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